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This month: 16 entries.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010326/en/mdf27948.html Julia Roberts & Russell Crowe: this is depressing, I don't even find Oscar-winning actors attractive anymore 12:10

http://www.ironminds.com/ironminds/issues/010321/loser.shtml "Were you nursed on lead paint, you numskull?" 21:26

http://www.reason.com/0103/cr.jm.st.html "How P.T. Barnum helped invent business ethics" 16:15

http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-03-13/pol.asp "The case for Northern secession" 11:27

http://www.linguafranca.com/9709/shellgame.html Eliot's J. Alfred Prufrock: lobster or crab? English profs debate. 16:32

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-92357,00.html the 80-year-old Marquess of Aberdeen and the women he's known. "You really paid extraordinarily little, £5 or £10. I don't think you could get a good tart now for at least £200." 20:57

http://slate.msn.com/culturebox/entries/01-03-06_101969.asp the books book reviewers are ashamed to have not read. ("Before I die I'd like to know which came first, the War or the Peace.") Me: Dickens, Brontës, *The Lord of the Rings*. 23:12

http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=85000672 argues for the abolition of the inheritance tax: "In Britain ... Libraries and art collections, codes of chivalry and good manners alike, husbanded over centuries, disappeared virtually overnight, taking with them a refined and cultivated way of life." 23:08

http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010219fr_
schikler
short story, *strongly* reminiscent of J.D. Salinger. Plot, execution, characters (Nicole Bonner a 19-year-old Esmé?), it all fits. What do you think? 23:26